Edited by Frank Meke.
** Heading to London for holidays, great idea but don’t fall ill or need to send parcels to anywhere soon. Know why? Nurses, rail staff, bus drivers, civil servants, fire fighters, postal workers and border force, have all pulled up sleeves to go on a mother of all strikes never seen in decades in Britain.
** The Abike Dabire led Nigeria Diaspora Commission, should head to India to understudy how to harvest Diaspora values chain. India migrant remittances hit a record 100 billion dollars mark this year, shoving Mexico to the second place on global Diaspora remittance scale.
** Have you heard about the word, ” Globin model” and do you know what it means? Oxford Dictionaries announced globin model as its word of year and it means ” unapologetically self indulgent in a way that rejects social norms.”
** Just in less than 14 days to the end of year 2022, Nigeria Air, has shown no signs it would fly, sending red signals that the 14.6 billion naira spent on giving it a wing, may have gone down the drain. As we write, Nigeria Air, has no pilots, cabin crew, and no aircraft. Nigeria, we hail thee.!!
*** United States prosecutors says Sam Bankman fried, founder of the world’s crypto Currency Exchange, FTX, ringed one of the biggest financial fraud in American history. He was accused of defrauding investors and not customers, which triggered a one billion dollars withdrawals by customers from Binanance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange outfit.
**Nigeria Ministry of Interior says it has not issue any announcement on Public holidays, for the Yuletide, denying an earlier announcement last week, declaring December 26th, 27th and 2nd of January, 2023. As the time of this report on Monday, December 19th, nothing is yet official from the Ministry, with civil servants in particular not knowing when to head to the hinterlands for holidays.
*** lagos state biggest Entertainment and Hospitality Jam, Greater lagos fiesta, has gotten the nod of governor Babajide sanwo-0lu. Barrister Femi Martins, Special Adviser on Tourism, Arts and Culture to the governor, says the fiesta, will tell new stories about holidaying in the city of aquatic splendour. He is our signature guest on our villa square.
*** A cancer vaccine, modeled after same technology to Covid 19 mRNA vaccines, may bring succour to thousands who suffer from the cancer scrouge. Innocullated melanoma patients with an immunotherapy boost of the vaccine has about 44 percent survival .
** The world’s first carbon border tax, may swing into action by 2023, a European Union response to protecting its industries. The “green tax”, is expected to target imports on cement, hydrocarbon, metals, fertilisers, electricity and some unnamed manufactured goods. Tongues are wagging all over the world, as the tax is seen as additional barrier to global free trade.
